[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Feature Requests-228008 ] Need full name & phone in list user database

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Feature Requests item #228008, was opened at 2001-01-08 01:36
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Category: (un)subscribing
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Need full name & phone in list user database

Initial Comment:
I need a better authentication method for people who want to subscribe to a list, and right now the only info that a user type in is an e-mail address -- there's no easy way for him to type in his full name and phone number.

I can change the text of the e-mail that the user gets ("confirm" is checked in the admin/privacy page of the list) to request that the user send in this info, but the list-admin@hostserver never gets the user's reply to the confirm e-mail.

Regardless, I need to track full names and phone numbers associated with each subscriber's e-mail.  This should be a fairly simple change to user databases, but a little beyond my capabilities.

I hope "bugs" is the right place to request this, I didn't see a better place.

webbi@caa-austin.org

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>Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-05-03 01:50

Message:
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MM2.1 can now track the fullnames, but it doesn't track
phone numbers.  Such "extra information" is better placed in
a real unified user database since it isn't really of any
relevance to Mailman.  In MM2.1 you could back Mailman with
an external database bridge to accomplish something similar.

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Comment By: Jens Larsson (jenslarsson)
Date: 2001-07-06 12:15

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This is something I really miss. I was just going to file
this as a feature request myself. It is very hard to
manually administer a list with a few hundred recipients
when strange mail-addresses is all you have.

/jens

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Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters)
Date: 2001-03-02 03:45

Message:
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It's a feature request, which is kind of a bug. This is also
not trivial to arrange because Mailman lacks a user-database
entirely, at the moment. All that is stored is a per-list
list of emailaddr/password pairs. 

Moved to feature requests.

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Comment By: Jeffrey M. Vinocur (jvinocur)
Date: 2001-01-11 11:23

Message:
I agree.  (Other list software keeps the database as a list of RFC 822 addresses, like "user@host", "J. Random User <user@host>", "user@host (J. Random User)".  This would be nice...

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